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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from Â鶹´«Ã½.

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Earth

How the world made us: chance and climate in the human story

Chance, geo-climatic factors and the changing landscape all have an important part to play in human evolution, argues Mark Maslin in The Cradle of Humanity

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visitors looking at iCub

Technology

Science Museum’s Robots: Who is really pulling the strings?

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Humans

The high cost of being digital

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Person in space suit floating high above Earth

Space

Tweet me, I’m about to die in space

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Environment

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

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animal museum

Earth

The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess

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Filigree-like artwork called Aggregation 24 by Andy Lomas

Humans

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art

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Mind

The great VR Science Challenge

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Technology

How Moore’s microchip law is still shaping our world

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Environment

We need smarter ways to probe primate brains

Forget language: in Monkeytalk, primatologist Julia Fischer argues creative experiments are needed to learn about primates’ intelligence – before they vanish

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Environment

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

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Space

Lost in space: Two books on the forgotten women of astroscience

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Technology

How art helps us work out our techno dreams and nightmares

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Earth

Down with data! Sagas are more likely to save Earth

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